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Hey, all you phuck-knuckle lefties in Berlin, if Biden gets elected, you will pay for this idiocy when you get into the real world after your uni-bubble days are over, good luck, the party is over, by the way, you'd better learn Chinese and learn to be a good obedient Communist. Your marxist professors will be in heaven.
It does not matter If you are able to speak German. They always switch to English when they hear your non German accent. What is the point of speaking German then ?
Also, If you want to apply for white collar jobs, your level of German is never sufficient for them. I can handle everything in German but they expect you to speak perfect German somehow. What I mean is, they don't even grant you chance. Everything is white or black to them.
Despite German's " YOU HAVE TO SPEAK GERMAN to work in Germany" hype on Internet, there are lots of jobs in English. So, this makes this place suitable stepping stone for better countries.
BTW it's highly illegal for them to write "Deutsch als Muttersprache" but you see it all over the place:
www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/deutsch-als-muttersprache-diskriminierung-in-stellenanzeige_073218.html
.fuck.germany.
www.berlin.de/polizei/polizeimeldungen/pressemitteilung.1012707.php
"It is investigated for incitement to hatred, the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations and violation of the weapons law."
Uhhhh, one of those things is not like the others WTF?
From the outside Germany seems like a great country with a good economy, high standards and a degree of safety but from living in Germany I discovered that all is not well in Germany and people in other countries will be surprised to find that most of the myths about Germany are not true.
Germany is bureaucratic and inefficient even chaotic, this is not something that people usually think about Germany but it is true and you only find out once you live in the country. The amount of paperwork for pointless government enquiries is on a new level. Scandinavia also has a lot of this type of government involvement in your life but there it is efficiently managed and quite hassle free. In Germany it is not hassle free and really difficult at times. Also nothing is friendly to foreigners, you really need to speak and read German in order to even get a school place for your child.
Then there is your work life which is blighted by high taxes and most Germans don’t have good salaries. When you get over how little you get at the end of the month then you have to deal with the normal German corporate culture which involves an aggressive top down constant complaining and nagging to all staff. Luckily I was in management but I was shocked how there is literally no encouragement to staff but constant pressure instead. This culture can be found in almost all companies, it is the rule not the exception.
Then I have a personal problem with the dire state of housing in Germany. Whether you are renting or buying the standard of housing is really shocking to me. Most houses are old and cheaply built with small windows and very little character. I have rented and bought in Germany each time I am even more shocked by the properties I see.
Then there is education, there really not enough international schools for expats in most areas and if your children go to a German School the standard of education and service is really laughable. Our kids were delighted to enter German School as the schools were way behind and they got marks just by being nice to the teacher. We found most of the staff to be disinterested in the children and totally lacking in knowledge in the subjects they were teaching. There are 3 types of schools and our children went to the highest level which is Gymnasium. There are two lower levels of school Haupt Schule and Real Schule, I dread to think what these schools are like.
My wife who is German but has worked abroad for many years begged me to move to another country for work after only one year of being back. Having been used to international standards she was shocked to see the standards in her own country.
After 3 years we have moved abroad again and the whole family is much happier. If you are an educated expat looking to move to an another country, Germany should be at the bottom of your list.
The only things I would disagree are below words
" If you are an educated expat looking to move to an another country, Germany should be at the bottom of your list."
I know what you mean but Germany is perfect stepping stone as It has somehow good reputation abroad. So, you could work in Germany for couple years (preferably in global environment) then you could move on
Berlin is not important, what's important today is whether the major superpower will be the communist dictatorship China aligned with Biden, or Trump who is aligned with the Democratic, free, West, and that includes Berlin, (pre-empting the moron who will post "what's that got to do with Berlin"..
Germans hate Trump because they know America is the biggest importer of German goods and is willing to start an ongoing trade war. Germans have for too long been accustomed to restricting imports with non-tariff barriers (TTIP revealed this perfectly as the Germans obsessed over American sausages called "Thueringer Bratwurst" being allowed to be sold in Germany, much like chlorinated chickens, etc.) and tariff barriers (the personal exemption for non-EU imports into Germany is 25 EUR - in the US it is 800 USD). Then don't even get me started on Germany's unwillingness to fund its own military and willingness to import oil from Russia which is known for shutting off the pipeline for political reasons (see Ukraine). If Germans were capable of long-term thinking they would see that an autonomous Germany with fair trade policies would benefit Germany. But once you've become addicted to free foreign direct investment under the guise of a cold war it's difficult to kick the habit.
On way or another, Germans are going to have to grow up. Either by paying their own way or by ultimately having to resist Chinese aggression. The Belt and Road initiative is slowly usurping all surrounding countries that have weak economies (even countries like Italy). The moment the EU begins to seriously collapse (only a matter of time once the UK is officially out and the world see that that EU mafia is bad for economic growth of developed nations) is when China gains a hold. German politicians know this. Lefty German politicians are basically controlled by China.
In Germany people seem to be shielded from such superfluous topics as economics, global politics and financial markets. Even the newspapers here refuse to cover anything relevant. Even Handelsblatt, once praised by Noam Chomsky as being one of the only European newspapers that accurately reported on world politics, has degenerated in quality. And most Germans actively refuse to learn anything about economics. Try this out: Next time someone mentions anything about business or economics (Tesla moving to Berlin, the FDP supporting opening stores on Sundays, etc.) just say "Oh my God, I don't ever want to hear about the free market again!" and note the looks of approval every German will give you.
They need to watch these videos by Milton Friedman www.youtube.com/watch A crash course in the realities of Capitalism v Socialism v Communism.
A great, great man. Anyway, by the looks of things, American Lefty Idiots (ALI's) are going to vote commies Biden and Cameltoe Harris in, so my advice is if you are a student, you'd better learn Chinese. This is the end of the western way of life that millions of people around the world risk their lives to come to, yes, even the Chinese are scrambling to get to the USA and other western countries, they want their freedom, in other words, we the west, are phucked. The parties over baby.
Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Thomas Sowell, Friederich Hayek... they should all be mandatory reading for anyone and their works should be amplified by every newspaper. But instead the only pop star economists we have today are Keynesian idiots like Paul Krugman and Hans Werner Sinn.
What the hell is going on with this border,
If you move to Germany especially Berlin from another country and happen to have darker skin, on the ligher side or darker doesn't matter, your social value ist -150 by default. I could go into a full bar, full of Germans right now and take my D out and piss right in front of everybody that would not change the way they see me even if I am nice and decent person. People need to understand that before moving to berlin.
you basically have to lower your standard to be accepted by them. So basically if they feel threatened by you its a good thing. No sense to go trash yourself with a bunch of pooping outfit, just so they will like you. And if you are a POC forget it. I feel bad for german POC, they are born in germany and germans still dont accept them as being there, this is the country of white supremacy, and they learned nothing from the past. morons.
Germans treat ALL foreigners wrong. The only thing is that if you’re white and you keep your mouth shut, they may mistake you for German and not treat you as bad as other foreigners. As soon as you open your mouth, you’re doomed. Totally xenophobic people
I know a lot of people are stuck right now. And I apologize for being an jerk when leaving. I know that I got lucky with thefunding and was able to use the money to leave. I apologize for anything bad I said when I left. If you feel like Berlin is breaking you, please don't become broken by it. Don't hurt yourself and if you need to talk you can always come to Berlin hater. It is like a free support group after all. I still go on it because there are some people I care a lot about in Berlin. And to remind myself however why I had to leave.
I miss someone in Berlin a lot and a few people and I know things are just getting worse so this is what I mean when I said I apologized for being a jerk. Becase it doesnt help to say " im getting the f out here" when they cannot , and have no choice. and its dark winter. I feel horrible..
All the other cities on cityhater dont get more than a few comments, but Berlin gets almost 5k. Says a lot
Why the hell are they shutting down central heating at night???? Why do they shut down heating when its 18 degrees outside????? I want to heat my place at night and when days are mild but still too cold without heating,
I hate that they tell me when I can heat and when not,
How to deal with being yelled at and harassed by Germans? I yell back and they become cowards, but I just want to develop a thick skin and not be affected by their harassment in the first place. How to do that?
I usually just completely ignore them when possible. Like if they yell something at me I just act like I didn't notice and continue on. Sometimes I'll just say "fucking retard" loud enough for them to hear it. But lately I have just been yelling back at them because they're too weak to do anything about it about 100% of the time. And I'm not even a tough guy or anything.
www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/bringen-die-deutschen-in-den-usa-trump-zu-fall-li.115238
Funny how Germans delude themselves into believing they are relevant.
P.S:: I'm American and 0% German according to my DNA test. Thank God.
lmao heard an interview on the radio this morning with some guy who volunteers for democrats abroad and was very obviously pretending to be american. they said he's lived here 7 years but he spoke 100% perfect German, no accent and no article errors. He was saying "I don't even recognise my country anymore..." No shit, krautboy - it's because you're a German who, if you ever even lived in the US, refused to integrate and probably lived in a German enclave and attended German school. Who actually believes this crap? You cannot believe anything you see or hear in the German media.
I read a couple of comments on here of people that know a few people who died by committing suicide or drug overdoses. Is it really so common here in Berlin ?
Longtime lurker here. Are other German cities better places to live? I get not wanting to get screwed over, but so many people here really want to have everything for caca. Where are the real adults in Germany or at least somewhere more tolerable? Fornicate this Scheiße.